background: the main goal of this study was to conduct a comparative population genetic study of turkish speaking iranian azeris as being the biggest ethno-linguistic community, based on the polymorph markers on y chromosome.  methods: one hundred turkish-speaking azeri males from north-west iran (tabriz, 2008-2009) were selected based on living 3 generations paternally in the same region and n...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching communication strategies on students’ self-efficacy in speaking in content-based courses in Iranian EFL context. To this end, 30 students in two content-based classes, one as the experimental group and another as the control group, in SAMA private junior high school school in Tabriz, participated in this study. Communication st...

Due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. Recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. Fortunately, in recent years, ma...

The design and implementation of a flexible LDPC decoder able to cope with different codes, is gathering an increasing interest in the scientific community. Roughly speaking, a flexible decoder exhibits the remarkable ability of being able to decode different codes resorting to the same hardware. In this paper we present a novel decoder architecture specifically devised to present an high flexi...

This study sought to promote EFL learners' speaking ability drawing on Bakhtin’s notion of dialogic discourse pattern (DDP) and to explore their perceptions towards implementing dialogic teaching (DT) in a speaking classroom. To this end, from the population of students in different language institutes, 47 students were selected based on a purposive sampling method. The data were collected at t...

Existing project selection models do not consider the complexity of projects as a selection criterion, while their complexity may prolong the project duration and even result in its failure. In addition, existing models cannot formulate the aggregate complexity of the selected projects. The aggregated complexity is not always equal to summation of complexity of projects because of possible syne...

the present meta-analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative measure of the overall effects of task complexity on chinese efl learners’ language production. based on the strict inclusion criteria, 12 primary studies were synthesized according to key features. eleven of them were meta-analyzed to investigate effects of raising the resource-directing task complexity. results revealed that ...

The study investigated the perceptions of students learning French as a foreign language in Malaysian public university. specific objectives were to examine: (1) self-reported proficiency level; and (2) their listening, speaking, reading writing skills French. Questionnaire data collected from 80 undergraduates enrolled Levels 1 2 courses. analysis showed that learners Level rated themselves ha...

We postulate that a distribution is pseudorandom if it cannot be told apart from the uniform distribution by any eecient procedure. This yields a robust deenition of pseudorandom generators as eecient deterministic programs stretching short random seeds into longer pseudorandom sequences. Thus, pseudorandom generators can be used to reduce the randomness-complexity in any eecient procedure. Pse...